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Rejection

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In the ministry I meet all kinds of people.  It is quite interesting some days.  I do enjoy it; but, it is heartbreaking at times.  When you come across people and you have the answers to their problems and they will not accept and apply the answer it gets to you.

Time and again Jesus sends His messengers to people and they will either accept or reject His message.  This a sad reality when they openly reject His loving call to salvation.  It is just like so many people who go to the doctor and then do not follow his advice.

This has been going on since the beginning.  All the way back to Adam and Eve.  They had fellowship with God.  He walked in the garden with them.  Yet, they still gave in to the solicitation to sin and fell.  Because of this you and I are now born sinners.

There were another group that rejected Jesus.  Look at Matthew 8:33-34, “And they that kept them fled, and went their ways into the city, and told every thing, and what was befallen to the possessed of the devils.  And, behold, the whole city came out to meet Jesus: and when they saw him, they besought him that he would depart out of their coasts.”

Never mind that two men had just been miraculously healed and demons cast out.  This crowd was more concerned about their bottom line.  Jesus hit them in the money bag and they responded by rejecting Him and pushing him out of their area.  I pray that we never find ourselves in this position.

So, how are you doing?

The Song

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There is no doubt in the power of music.  I would love to be a bass singer and maybe one day I will be.  Stop laughing.  Music can soothe the savage beast in the case of David playing his harp for king Saul.

There is another aspect of music being a healing force in our lives.  This is the writing of music.  Not only music; but, poetry and stories of all kinds also.  Writing is healing and that is the reason for the birth of this blog as you know.  A very dear friend shared with my wife and I that she had written another song and was trying to have it published.  It was an awesome song and she needs to publish it.  This offering of praise was born out of a dark time in her life.

There are two times basically that we write.  They are day and night.  No, I am not referring to a literal day or night.  I am speaking of seasons of our life.  Sometimes life is like day with abundant sunshine and we write out of joy.  Look at II Samuel 22:1, “And David spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul:”  Write while the sun shines.

Then there is the other season of life in which we write.  The night.  Look at What the Psalmist wrote in Psalm 77:6, “call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.”  The phrase “my song in the night:”.  There is most often where I write anything.  Not all of the time.  Some of the most powerful insight, song, poem and stories have come in the dark times of life (your’s and mine).  God uses these to grow us up spiritually.  This is why we need to use these gifts and abilities that He has given to us to glorify Him and point other people to a saving knowledge of Christ.  Write and sing for the glory of God.

So, how are you doing?

All Because Of Another 3

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My mind kept going to a certain account in the Scriptures.  As Jesus was passing by a man that was blind his disciples posited this question; “who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?”  This is a valid question.  We; as these disciples, know that sin brings consequences with it.  They failed to realize a great truth.  They focused on the negative.  Their question shows this.

Notice their tone.  They were basically saying, “Who sinned?”  “This man or his parents?”  It had not entered their minds that neither had sinned.  Then Jesus tells them.  “Neither one has sinned.” (This is my interpretation.)

So, why was this man born blind?  He was born blind so that Jesus could demonstrate the power of God to heal.  This man was an instrument in the hand of God to show His power and His person.  I mean, that by his healing it was to point people to Jehovah.  Instead the so-called religious people looked down upon Jesus.  They interrogated the man as to Who had healed him.  It was somehow his fault that Jesus had healed him it would appear.  This shows the extent that people will go to in discrediting Jesus.

You see, this man was born blind “All Because Of Another”.  He was born blind so that the power of God in healing could be revealed to the world to draw them to Jesus.  The point was to draw men to Jesus for salvation.  All because of another.

So, how are you doing?

John 9:2-3, “And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?   Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.”